Health Service Support in a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Environment / Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures

by United States. Department of the Army

Section I. INTRODUCTION

D-1. General

The primary purpose of the Medical Planning Guide for the Estimation of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Battle Casualties—AMedP-8(A), a three-volume publication for NBC, is to assist medical planners, medical logisticians, and medical staff officers in predicting NBC warfare contingency requirements for HSS personnel, medical materiel stockpiles, patient transport or evacuation capabilities, and facilities needed for patient decontamination, triage, treatment, and supportive care. The optional use of these guides is for projecting medical NBC operational estimates at brigade, division, corps, and EAC.

NOTE

The use of "the guide" in this appendix refers to AMedP-8(A), Volume I, II, or III. The AMedP-8(A), Volume I, II, or III, is the text for each of the STANAGs. The contents of this appendix are extracts from Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the guide.

D-2. Medical Planners' Tool

Medical planners' estimates (such as casualty, logistics, evacuation, and personnel cross leveling) must be modified for the NBC environment. Estimates of NBC medical workload can be found in AMedP-8(A). A compact disk containing these documents and an automated version of AMedP-8(A), the Casualty Requirements Estimation Tool (CREST), can be obtained from Headquarters, Department of the Army, ATTN: DASG-HCZ-FD, 5109 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3258. The CREST is primarily an Army tool focusing on corps, brigades, and battalions, but also models aerial ports of debarkation, seaports of debarkation, and other units.

This Section Implements STANAG 2475.